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Can we get out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

2021-05-29T18:42:48.163Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - Michael Herzog, former brigadier general of the Israeli army, and Ghaith al-Omari, researcher at the Washington Institute analyze the reasons for the failures and the chances of peace in the Middle East.


LE FIGARO.

- Why did the decades-long negotiations all fail?

Is there an unsolvable case that leads to failure?

Ghaith AL-OMARI.

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In my opinion, there are three main reasons for failure.

The first is that this conflict is not easy.

Some of the questions are very complicated!

The second and more important reason is politics!

Each time, at the time of the decision, one of the two parties was not politically ready.

Today none of the parties are!

The third reason is that we are negotiating two totally different things.

We negotiate arrangements, specific elements, sometimes technical, but we also negotiate on intangible things, impossible to quantify: who has the most links with this land, who has more love for Jerusalem, what is it? passed in 1948?

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Mike HERZOG.

- This is an extremely complex conflict between two national movements which have a historic claim on the same piece of

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Source: lefigaro

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